Volcano: The Search for Vesuvius
Simon & Schuster, April 1982. Hardcover. Foxing throughout. More
History
The Ancient Fleets: The Story of Naval Warfare Under Oars, 2600 B.C. - 1597 A.D (War at Sea)
Twayne Publishers Inc., January 1970. Hardcover. Solid hardcover copy with toning and some staining on edge. Jacket chipped and soiled. More
Dudley, Donald R.
Little, Brown and Company, January 1968. Hardcover. More
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
Penguin Books, June 2022. Paper Back. A New York Times bestseller! "Lively and absorbing. . . -- The New York Times Book Review Engrossing. --Wall Street Journal "Entertaining and well-researched . . . " --Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo..... More
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
Gallery Books, September 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days. Fans fell..... More
Roman Britain: Outpost of the Empire
W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1986. Trade Paperback. Combining classical scholarship with recent archeological discoveries, Scullard recreates what life was like in Roman Britain, detailing merchants' activities, the mixing of pagan and Christian religions, and the emergence of the city. More
Kourion the Search for a Lost Roman City
ANCHOR PRESS/DOUBLEDAY, January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
The Ancient Romans
Oxford University Press, November 1971. Trade Paperback. More
The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome
University of California Press, January 1988. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing on the edges of the print block and the endpapers. More
An Introduction to Tacitus
University of Georgia Press. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing and underlining. More
Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure (Revised and Updated)
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, September 1989. Trade Paperback. A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled. More
Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives
Cornell University Press, July 1987. Trade Paperback. Little has been published on the Roman family, a subject of central importance to political as well as social history. It was the family that determined political power; it was within the family that the distinctive relationships of one citizen to another were..... More
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
The Johns Hopkins University Press, August 1982. Trade Paperback. This highly acclaimed collection provides a rare look into the private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes -- wet nurses, prostitutes, poets, gladiators, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition offers new texts..... More
Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1966. Trade Paperback. By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material..... More
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
The New Press, August 2022. Paper Back. The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World--with a new preface by the author..... More
Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall
Southern Illinois University Press, October 2007. Hardcover. Well Satisfied with My Position offers a first-person account of army life during the Civil War's Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. Spencer Bonsall, who joined the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry as a hospital steward, kept a journal from March 1862 until March 1863..... More
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
Twelve, August 2022. Paper Back. The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve..... More
The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
Pegasus Books, January 2018. Trade Paperback. The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs according to the sympathies of the viewer, who may see..... More
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
W. W. Norton, September 2008. Trade Paperback. America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability benefits and..... More
Maoism: A Global History
Vintage, August 2020. Turtleback Binding. *** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR DEUTSCHER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING*** 'Revelatory and instructive... [a] beautifully written..... More
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
Riverhead Books, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags. --Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove comes the story of a...... More
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Alfred a Knopf, 1984. Reprint. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In DJ darkened/dust stained at margins. Flap not clipped. Moderate foxing/tanning of verso. This title tells of the 14th century, the cusp between the middle ages and the Renaissance. Front end pages show map of europe in..... More
The GUNS OF AUGUST
Scribner, January 1962. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with small tears. Black cloth with dust stains. Splattered white paint drops (or perhaps white-out) across back panel of boards. [511 pages]. More
Readings in the Classical Historians
Scribner, March 1993. Hardcover. More
Cicero: Selected Letters (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, May 1986. Trade Paperback. Provides a brief biographical sketch of the Roman consul and orator, and gath his selected correspondence, in which he discusses social and political life the Roman Empire. More
